Terms of Service

These Terms of Service are the agreement between you and Beginary LLC ("Beginary," "we," "us") for your use of the Beginary website and app. Please read them. By joining the waitlist, creating an account, or using Beginary, you agree to these terms.

1. Who we are

Beginary is operated by Beginary LLC. These terms cover the website at beginary.com, the waitlist, and the Beginary iOS app (together, the "Service"). Your privacy is covered separately by our Privacy Policy, which is part of these terms.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old to use Beginary. By using the Service, you confirm that you are. Beginary is not directed to children.

3. Your account

You're responsible for keeping your account secure and for activity that happens under it. Provide accurate information when you sign up, and let us know promptly if you suspect unauthorized use. You may delete your account at any time from within the app.

4. What Beginary is — and isn't

Beginary is a productivity tool designed to help adults with ADHD initiate tasks. It is not a medical device, and it does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It is not a substitute for care from a qualified professional. Any future coaching feature connects you with independent coaches and is not clinical care. If you have health concerns, talk to a licensed provider.

Beginary is not an emergency or crisis service. It is not designed to detect, prevent, monitor, or respond to mental-health crises, self-harm or suicidal thoughts, or any other emergency, and it does not monitor your tasks, notes, mood check-ins, or usage for those purposes. If you or someone else may be in danger or needs urgent help, contact your local emergency services or an appropriate crisis line right away. Because Beginary does not and cannot monitor your content for these purposes, you are responsible for seeking appropriate help when you need it. If Beginary ever displays general informational resources (such as a crisis line), it does so only for your convenience; this is not monitoring, not detection, and not a substitute for emergency services or professional care.

5. Reminders, nudges, and your judgment

Beginary may suggest steps, reminders, nudges, alarms, or schedules to help you get started. These are aids, not instructions — you stay in charge of deciding what to do and whether a suggestion is safe and right for you.

You must not rely on Beginary as your only or primary reminder for anything where a missed, late, or incorrect reminder could cause harm — including medication and medical instructions, safety-critical tasks, legal or financial deadlines, and travel requirements. For those, use a purpose-built tool and your own independent safeguards. You understand and accept that reminders may not be delivered, and you assume the risk of relying on them. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Beginary is not responsible for any consequences of a reminder or alarm that is missed, delayed, or not delivered.

Reminders and alarms can also fail or arrive late for reasons outside our control — device settings, Focus modes, notification permissions, battery, connectivity, or how the operating system handles background activity. Treat Beginary as a helpful companion, not a guaranteed safety net.

6. AI features

Beginary uses AI to generate task breakdowns and suggestions. AI output can be inaccurate, incomplete, or not suitable for your situation, so treat a breakdown as a starting point rather than authoritative instruction. You're responsible for reviewing any suggestion and deciding whether to follow it. AI features are optional and can be turned off in the app's settings.

7. Subscriptions, billing, and auto-renewal

Beginary starts with a 14-day free trial that gives you full access — no credit card required. When the trial ends, a paid Pro subscription is required to keep creating, editing, and starting tasks; without it, your existing data stays viewable but task changes are paused until you subscribe. There is no automatic charge when the trial ends — you decide whether to subscribe.

• Free trial — 14 days of full access, card-free. It doesn't convert to a paid plan on its own, and you're never charged for it.
• Pro — unlocks full usage for $8.99 per month or $79 per year. Prices are in U.S. dollars and may vary by region and over time.

Billing is handled by Apple through the App Store. When you subscribe:

• Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase.
• Your subscription renews automatically at the then-current price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your device's App Store account settings. Canceling stops future renewals; it does not automatically refund the current period.
• You can restore your purchase in the app if you reinstall Beginary or move to a new device using the same Apple ID.
• Apple handles payments, subscription management, cancellations, and refunds under the App Store's terms — we don't separately process them.

In short: Pro automatically renews at the then-current price ($8.99 per month or $79 per year) until you cancel. You can cancel anytime in your Apple App Store account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period, and you keep Pro access until then. We don't provide prorated refunds for the current period except where required by law.

If we change subscription prices, we'll provide notice as required, and changes won't affect a billing period already paid for.

8. Acceptable use

Please don't misuse the Service. Among other things, don't: break the law; attempt to access accounts or data that aren't yours; probe, scan, or disrupt the Service or its security; reverse-engineer or copy the app except as the law allows; resell or commercially exploit the Service; or upload content that's unlawful or infringes others' rights. We may suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms.

9. Your content

Your tasks, notes, and other content are yours. You grant us a limited license to store and process that content solely to operate and provide the Service to you — for example, to display your timeline or generate a breakdown you request. We don't claim ownership of your content. We don't let our AI provider train its models on your content, and we don't sell it or use it for advertising. If you choose to help improve Beginary (an optional setting that's off by default), you grant us permission to keep and use the content you've shared to improve Beginary's own features, as described in our Privacy Policy; you can turn this off at any time.

You're responsible for what you put into Beginary. Only enter content you have the right to use, and try not to include highly sensitive information unless you need it for your own use of the app.

Our team doesn't routinely look at your task or mood content. Limited access happens only when it's genuinely needed — to provide support you've asked for, investigate abuse or a security issue, comply with the law, or fix a technical problem — and only by authorized personnel.

10. How Beginary evolves

Beginary is an early-stage product, and you may encounter it as a waitlist, a beta or TestFlight build, or an early-access release. Features, usage limits, integrations, AI behavior, coaching, pricing, and other parts of the Service may change, pause, or be discontinued over time. Beta and early features in particular may be incomplete, change often, or contain rough edges. We'll aim to make changes thoughtfully, but please expect the product to keep moving as we build.

11. Intellectual property

The Beginary name, app, website, design, and content (other than your content) belong to Beginary LLC and are protected by intellectual-property laws. We grant you a personal, non-transferable, non-exclusive license to use the Service under these terms. You may not use our branding without permission.

12. Third-party services and the App Store

Beginary relies on third parties — including Apple, and the providers listed in our Privacy Policy — to deliver the Service. We're not responsible for third-party services we don't control.

If you download Beginary through the Apple App Store, your use is also subject to Apple's applicable App Store terms, including Apple's standard End User License Agreement (EULA) unless a different license is presented to you. If anything in these terms conflicts with Apple's required App Store terms, Apple's required terms apply for App Store distribution.

The following applies to the app obtained through the Apple App Store: These terms are between you and Beginary LLC only, not Apple, and Apple is not responsible for the app or its content. Apple has no obligation to provide any maintenance or support for the app. Apple is not responsible for any product warranties, whether express or implied; in the event of any failure of the app to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify Apple, and Apple will refund the purchase price of the app to you (if any), and to the maximum extent permitted by law Apple has no other warranty obligation with respect to the app. Apple is not responsible for addressing any claims relating to the app, including product-liability, regulatory, or intellectual-property claims, or claims that the app fails to conform to any legal or regulatory requirement. You represent that you are not located in a country subject to a U.S. Government embargo or designated as a "terrorist supporting" country, and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and, upon your acceptance, have the right to enforce them against you.

13. Disclaimers

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available," without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement, to the fullest extent permitted by law. We don't warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that it will help you accomplish any particular outcome.

14. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Beginary LLC will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or for lost data or profits, arising from your use of the Service. Our total liability for any claim relating to the Service will not exceed the greater of the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim or US $50.

15. Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by law, you agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Beginary LLC and its officers, members, employees, and agents from and against any claims, demands, losses, liabilities, damages, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to: (a) the content you submit to the Service; (b) your use or misuse of the Service; (c) your violation of these terms; or (d) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party. We'll notify you of any such claim and may, at our option, assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification; you agree to cooperate with our defense. This section survives termination.

16. Termination

You can stop using Beginary and delete your account at any time. We may suspend or end your access if you violate these terms or if we discontinue the Service. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — such as content licenses you've granted, indemnification, disclaimers, and limitations of liability — will survive.

17. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms as the Service evolves. When we do, we'll update the "Last updated" date above and, for material changes, give you notice. Continuing to use the Service after an update means you accept the revised terms.

18. Dispute resolution — arbitration and class-action waiver

Please read this section carefully — it affects your legal rights. It requires most disputes between you and Beginary to be resolved through individual arbitration rather than in court, and it waives class actions and jury trials. You may opt out within 30 days (see (i) below). This Arbitration Agreement is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act.

(a) Informal resolution first. Before starting arbitration, send a written Notice of Dispute to hello@beginary.com describing the claim and the relief you seek, and give us 60 days to try to resolve it informally. We'll do the same before bringing a claim against you.

(b) Binding individual arbitration. Except as stated below, any dispute arising out of or relating to these terms or the Service will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (AAA) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules and, where applicable, its Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules, rather than in court. Arbitration will take place in a location reasonably convenient to you or, at your election, by phone, video, or written submission. Judgment on the award may be entered in any court with jurisdiction.

(c) Delegation. The arbitrator — not a court — decides all issues regarding the interpretation, scope, enforceability, and arbitrability of this Arbitration Agreement, except that a court decides whether the class-action and representative waiver in (d) is enforceable.

(d) Class-action and jury waiver. YOU AND BEGINARY MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN AN INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. YOU AND BEGINARY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.

(e) Public injunctive relief preserved. Nothing in this section prevents you from seeking public injunctive relief to the extent that right cannot be waived under applicable law. Any such claim proceeds in court and is stayed pending the individual arbitration of all other claims.

(f) Mass-arbitration protocol. If 25 or more similar arbitration demands are filed by or coordinated through the same or coordinated counsel, the parties agree the demands will be administered under the AAA Mass Arbitration Supplementary Rules using staged bellwether batches, with the outcomes informing a global resolution of the remaining demands.

(g) Arbitration costs. Payment of arbitration fees is governed by the AAA Rules. If you demonstrate that the fees are cost-prohibitive compared with bringing your claim in court, or that you cannot afford your share, Beginary will pay the portion necessary to keep the arbitration from being cost-prohibitive. Each party otherwise bears its own attorneys' fees, unless the law or the arbitrator provides otherwise.

(h) Exceptions. Either party may bring an individual claim in small-claims court, and either party may seek injunctive relief in court for the misuse of intellectual property. Nothing in this section waives any non-waivable statutory right or remedy.

(i) Your right to opt out. You may opt out of this Arbitration Agreement by emailing hello@beginary.com within 30 days of first accepting these terms, stating your name and that you opt out. Opting out won't affect any other part of these terms.

(j) Severability. If the class-action and representative waiver in (d) is found unenforceable as to any claim, then this entire Arbitration Agreement is null and void as to that claim, except that the public-injunctive-relief provision in (e) survives. The remainder of this section otherwise remains in effect.

19. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Illinois and applicable United States federal law, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Subject to the arbitration agreement in Section 18, any dispute will be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Illinois, except where applicable law gives you the right to bring a claim elsewhere.

20. General

These terms, together with our Privacy Policy, are the entire agreement between you and Beginary regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreements on that subject. If any provision is held unenforceable, the rest remains in effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable. Our failure to enforce any provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these terms; we may assign them to an affiliate or in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Neither party is liable for delays or failures caused by events beyond its reasonable control. Section headings are for convenience only.

Electronic communications and signatures. By creating an account or using the Service, you consent to receive communications from us electronically — including these terms, our policies, notices, and disclosures — and you agree that your electronic acceptance (such as ticking a consent box or tapping a button to continue) has the same legal effect as a handwritten signature. You may withdraw this consent by closing your account, though doing so means you can no longer use the Service.

21. Contact us

Questions about these terms? Email us at hello@beginary.com.